xxxvii, 473 pages : 24 cm

The concept of risk is an outgrowth of our society's great concern about coping with the dangers of modern life. The Perception of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, risk perception and risk management, to examine the gap between expert views of risk and public perceptions. Ordered chronologically, it allows the reader to see the evolution of our understanding of such perceptions, from early studies identifying public misconceptions of risk to recent work that recognizes the importance and legitimacy of equity, trust, power and other value-laden issues underlying public concern

Includes bibliographical references (pages 430-461) and index

Decision processes, rationality and adjustment to natural hazards / Paul Slovic, Howard Kunreuther and Gilbert White -- Cognitive processes and societal risk taking / Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff and Sarah Lichtenstein -- Preference for insuring against probable small losses: insurance implications / Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff, Sarah Lichtenstein, Bernard Corrigan and Barbara Combs -- Accident probabilities and seat belt usage: a psychological perspective / Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff and Sarah Lichtenstein -- How safe is safe enough? A psychometric study of attitudes toward technological risks and benefits / Baruch Fischhoff, Paul Slovic, Sarah Lichtenstein, Stephen Read and Barbara Combs -- Rating the risks / Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff and Sarah Lichtenstein -- Weighing the risks: which risks are acceptable? / Baruch Fischhoff, Paul Slovic and Sarah Lichtenstein -- Facts and fears: understanding perceived risk ; Response mode, framing and information-processing effects in risk assessment / Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff and Sarah Lichtenstein -- The nature of technological hazard / Christoph Hohenemser, Robert W. Kates and Paul Slovic -- Informing and educating the public about risk / Paul Slovic -- Perception of risk from automobile safety defects / Paul Slovic, Donald G. MacGregor and Nancy N. Kraus -- Perception of risk / Paul Slovic -- The social amplification of risk: a conceptual framework / Roger E. Kasperson, Ortwin Renn, Paul Slovic, Halina S. Brown, Jacque Emel, Robert Goble, Jeanne X. Kasperson and Samuel Ratick -- The perception and management of therapeutic risk ; Perception of risk form radiation / Paul Slovic -- Perceived risk, trust and the politics of nuclear waste / Paul Slovic, James Flynn and Mark Layman -- Intuitive toxicology: expert and lay judgements of chemical risks / Nancy Kraus, Torbjorn Malmfors and Paul Slovic -- Perceived risk, trust and democracy / Paul Slovic -- Adolescent health-threatening and health-enhancing behaviors: a study of word association and imagery / Alida Benthin, Paul Slovic, Patricia Moran, Herbert Severson, C.K. Mertz and Meg Gerrard -- Technological stigma / Robin Gregory, James Flynn and Paul Slovic -- Probability, danger and coercion: a study of risk perception and decision-making in mental health law / Paul Slovic and John Monahan -- Do adolescent smokers know the risks? / Paul Slovic -- Insensitivity to the value of a human life: a study of psychophysical numbing / David Fetherstonhaugh, Paul Slovic, Stephen M. Johnson and James Friedrich -- Trust, emotion, sex, politics and science: surveying the risk-assessment battlefield / Paul Slovic -- The affect heuristic in judgements of risks and benefits / Melissa L. Finucane, Ali Alhakami, Paul Slovic and Stephen M. Johnson

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